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I thought Voices of the Fire was genius, and would like to read Jerusalem, but the sheer size of it is daunting. I like to read by the river and that thing would be like carrying a brick. (And no, I don't dig e-books.)

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I got an e-mail from Amazon on the day of release to say that my copy of Jerusalem had been delayed, I was quite disappointed so I sent them a complaint E-mail. They gave me credit on my Prime membership to the amount of the Kindle edition so I could start reading it whilst I wait for my copy. Quite handy really because it is a bloody big book to carry around. Only read a little bit so far (2% according to my kindle) I like it.

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Buy it! It's great! It's nothing like the awful Neonomicon. It's one of the best Lovecraftian tie-in books I've seen, because it's far more than being about writing a pastiche of Lovecraft.

really nice. i have bought the first two trades (four issues each). so worth it. it has the right feel to it, the storytelling is great and i love the mixture of genres and the meta-irony in the diary. i would have wished for a grittier colorization, but the detail in the art is nice.

well i mean of cause it will be ruined once alan moore pulls the inevitable fish-rape again

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So, was #11 the final issue of Providence? I'm seeing contradictory information online. It was originally scheduled to be a 10 issue series, then it was expanded to a 12 issue series, but some sites list #11 as the final issue.

Issue #11 certainly comes off as a definitive ending for the book, although I got a hint that Moore could take the reader in to the future for a final issue, but that was just a conjecture on my part. #11 probably is the final issue, I was just wondering if anyone had any concrete information it really is finished now.

I enjoyed seeing all those writers influenced by Lovecraft make cameo appearances at the end of the issue. I never expected to see names like Frank Belknap Long or RH Barlow make an appearance in a comic book. Those who haven't followed the influence of Lovecraft on popular culture or have knowledge of the "Lovecraft Circle" will probably be highly confused by the ending of this book.

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I also picked up William Messner Loebs' Necronomicon mini-series, from back in 2008, this week. It's really very, very good. So, why is this in an Alan Moore thread? Two reasons.

First, it sort of reinforces Moore's hypothesis about the strangeness of the eternal persistence of Lovecraft in popular culture. I had no idea that Messner Loebs was interested in all-things Lovecraftian, yet it shouldn't have come as a surprise, since almost everyone has been inculcated with the Mythos seeds by this point.

Secondly, it shows how unfair the comic book world is, that Messner Loebs' incredibly fine piece of Lovecraftian fiction was completely ignored (I barely even heard about it back in 2008), while Moore's Lovecraftian fiction reaps heaps of praise. I'm not talking about the genius of Providence, which is one of the finest works of Lovecraftian fiction in any medium. Yet, look at the attention and praise that Moore's Neonomicon received, when it was trash. Messner Loebs' Necronomicon deserved twice the praise of Moore's Neonomicon, yet most comic readers don't even know the name of Messner Loebs.

So, anyway, what's this one about? It takes place in the 1920s. A foreign exchange student from Arabia is studying in Arkham, when he takes a job for a local branch of the Theosophical Society attempting to translate the copy of the Necronomicon. There is some meta-commentary about anti-Semitism, as the main character befriends two fellow students, one of whom is a Jewish/Zionist female. The art is very nice also, fitting nicely the period piece. It's definitely worth checking out if you're a fan of Lovecraftian fiction. Not quite the masterpiece of Providence, but head and shoulders above a lot of the Lovecraft inspired drivel that litters the sub-genre.

I don't know what this Spirits of Place anthology is all about. I hadn't heard of it before. I'm not sure if it's fiction or non-fiction. It has a nice list of contributors though....Moore, Morrison, Ellis, Iain Sinclair.

No, it looks like it's described as a collection of essays. I'm not as interested, seeing it's non-fiction. That would be an outstanding fiction anthology though.

I'm surprised they got Morrison as the collection was put together by Moore's son in law: either the anthology's all reprint or Reppion's a bigger man than Moore, much as Morrison has proven himself to be over this ridiculous spat of Moore's.

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The final installment of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has been announced. It is going to feature a dystopian future world known as "We". All true science fiction fans will know to what that refers.